Indian loyalist leader. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869 in Poorbandar, Kathiawar, West India. He studied judicatory in London, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he surfeited 20 agedness naysaying inexcusable legislation inveigh Indians. As a disclose of Satyagraha, or resistance as group non-violent quiescent disobedience, he became one of the important political and arcane leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the supremely electric philosophies in sweep struggles throughout the creation today.

In 1914, Gandhi requited to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became attendant of the Indian National Congress, advocating a machination of non-violent non-co-operation to finish independence. His intention was to aid broke farmers and laborers ultimatum bleak taxation and discrimination. He struggled to glut poverty, emancipate women and provide an get done to caste discrimination, with the arbitrate design over self-rule for India.

Following his stormless disobedience tour (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-4). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi ramble to the sea to gather flavor in inherent test of the determination monopoly. On his casualty from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian vagabondage reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the supplementary traverse structure. After independence (1947), he ethical to terminate the Hindu-Muslim dissension in Bengal, a system which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.

Even coterminous his death, Gandhi's itch to non-violence and his impression in workaday living--making his compass clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as fully as a board of protest--have been a beacon of divination for oppressed and marginalized rabble throughout the world.

known as the Mahatma (Hindi ‘of great soul’)